Cucumber-picker.



No. 628,854. Patontad July H, I899.

W. W. RUBINSON. GUGUMBER PIGKEB.

(Application filed Jan. 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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IVILLIAM \V. ROBINSON,

CUCUlVlBE SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed January 6, 1899.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM W. ROBIN- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ripon, in the county of Fond duLac and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cucumber-Pickers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cucumber pickers or gatherers; and its object is to provide an improved device by which cucumbers may be severed from the vines and lifted from the ground in ara-pid and efficient manner and without the labor and fatigue incident to the ordinary manner of picking them by hand.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a cucumber-picker con structed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral 1 designates a horizontal bar, to which is secured a handle 2, by which the device is operated. Secured to the upper and lower sides the ends thereof and the ends of which are connected together, forming a space 4 between said ends and the end of the bar. Secured to said handle is a knife 5, which projects in front of the said bar and serves to severthe cucumbers from the vines. Also secured to said bar are downwardly-projectin g pins 6, which are adapted to engage with OF RIPON, VVISOONSIN.

R-PICKER.

Patent No. 628,854, dated July 11, 1899.

e a 701,357. (No model.)

The numeral 7 designates a wire frame se- 7 cured to or connected with said plates 3 for the purpose of preventing the device being clogged by vines or weeds.

In using the device the operator pushes the knife down, so that it will engage with the stem of the cucumber and sever it from the vine. At the same time the pins will enter the cucumber, and thus enable it to be lifted after being severed, as set forth.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a cucumbenpicker, the combination with the horizontal bar, the plates secured thereto, the handle secured to said bar and the knife secured to the lower end thereof, of the-pins secured to said bar, substantially as described. 3

2. In a cucumber-picker, the combination with the horizontal bar, the plates secured thereto, the handle secured to said bar, the

knife at the lower end of said handle and the pins secured to said bar, of the wire frame secured to saidplates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto; set

my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- HGSSQS.

w. R. LYLE, A; R. SoPER. 

